Thread: Some more Pignut Hickory milling

Great timber Scott. Do you expect the figure to get better as you go in? I remember the last lot of Pignut you posted had some amazing figure.

What's it like to work (in general woodwork, not milling)?

Cheers
Brett

Keep the photos coming, looking great

Good looking timber sir.

Thanks for the close up pics of your mill Scott.
Last year I built my own manual bandsaw mill which is working surprisingly well, however its not completely finnished yet (probably never will be), there's still a few modifycations to do. I really like seeing close up photos of the different design features on the various mills
regards,
Dean.

Scott

Thank you for showing us that. Looks good. Can you tell us about pignut hickory? Is it the same hickory that it used for tool handles?

Regards
Paul

No way to really tell what the log will look like further in, at least until I get her cut!
The 'plan' is to flip her 180* over and take off about a 2-3/4" thick strip, and then roll her one more time and cut some book-matched 20" wide pieces....might make a few good coffee tables, or maybe some end tables tops from them. And if they don't sell for what ever reason, I'll crosscut them into pen blanks(can't keep enough of those in stock anyway).

I'll see if I can get back out there and shoot some more close-up stuff, and maybe just set the video camera up and shoot a big boring video for YouTube?

The only reason I know this log is Pignut, was the leaves were still green on the tree, and it had the tiny nuts too. The storm ripped the tree at the butt area due to internal rot, guess the sapwood wasn't enough to hold it in a estimated 75mph wind? There are at least 14 different types of Hickory growing in North America(that is just using the sceintific naming for them, if you look for there 'local names'....well , no one has that kind of time). Shagbark is the most common type, and it is everywhere around here!


Thanks for looking everyone, I'll post some more photo's to this topic in the future....after all, cutting it is only part of the fun.(Carrying it, stacking it, moving it out of the way, where's the fun.....)



Scott (got love pig nut) B

The Woodmiser is a great saw mill we use one in Scotland and have cut well over 200 trees with it with no problems ..... You just need sharp saw blades !

Sorry....

I cut the rest of the log yesterday afternoon under threatening skies...think it actually sprinkled once or twice while I was cutting. And cold, crap, I thought winter was over(so much for global warming). So needless to say, I wasn't going to have a video camera out in the rain.

Ended up making a 3"(76.2mm) thick pass on the other side of the log for some platter blanks, and some bottle stoppers(should be nice with the spalting going on). And then rotated the log once again to make some 15-1/4"(387.35mm) wide boards in the 1"(25.4mm) thickness that are all 8'6"(2590.8mm) long. Got 12 from it, and then made a few 4"x4"(101mmx101mm) chunks from around the pith for a set of tiers to stack these on for drying! I guess I ended up with another 8 'edge' boards with a lot of spalting in them that I'll cut down and put in the shed for later re-cutting into pen blanks(it'll be awhile before these are dry enough to turn, but when they are ready....WOOHOO! premium chunks they will be!!)



Guess I'll snap a few photo's today of some of the eye-candy and post later? Got some Wild Black Cherry that needs to be milled for a friend, and his project!!



Scott (got me a workout moving logs) B